Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safety of Colonel Lindbergh, not only among non-fliers but in conversation with experienced aviators. At the recent Washington dinner to the French good-will fliers, Costes and Lebrix, Colonel Lindbergh's flights over Central and South American jungles were the subject of conversation, and it was the consensus that he should quit that sort of thing...
...consensus of critical opinions, had it been taken a month ago, would probably have given Author Thomas Hardy the first place among modern English prose writers, perhaps the same position among English poets. There have, on the other hand, always been those critics who inveigh against the less graceful than sturdy power of Author Hardy's fictions. Famed Author George Moore found Hardy's writing almost without merit...
Although individual instructors may experiment with section meetings or conferences if they so desire, the consensus of opinion of members of the department indicates that no such experiments are thought necessary for the first reading period. The tutors in the Department will probably not keep any appointments during this period except to have at least one of their number available during specified office hours to handle routine questions of admin- istration or exceptional and unforeseen problems connected with the reading assignments...
...whole it seems to be the consensus of opinion in the Department that, whatever the necessary fumbling of the first transitional experiments, the reading period should offer to students as well as to instructors and tutors a useful change of emphasis in their relations. Instead of being urged and harried into thinking by endless supervision, the student is offered the possibility of a period in which he may, indeed he must, interpret some problems for himself with only the aid that an introduction by lectures and tutors has afforded...
...consensus of opinion of the council that the best time for the institute of conference would be the middle of August, immediately after the close of the six weeks of summer courses which may be given by the Business School beginning...